Scientists have for the first time detected gravitational waves, ripples in space and time hypothesized by Albert Einstein a century ago, in a landmark discovery announced on Thursday that opens a new window for studying...

US scientists will make a presentation about the search for gravitational waves – and will possibly announce their discovery. Astronomers have been searching for decades, as they are one of the most important variables in...

Neuroscientists are pursuing new methods for preserving brains for future revival. They’re being spurred on by visions of post-humans and a cash prize that’s now well over $100,000. Someone always seems to be hot on...

Scientists from the University of Stuttgart (Germany) combine the properties of gases, crystals and superfluids to a single unique state of matter. The world of quantum mechanics happens only in small scales around a few...

10 Basic New Age Deceptions #1 Ignore the “Negative”—The notion that you make things worse by focusing on negative issues is false. Ignoring negative issues, like ignoring symptoms of an illness, only serves to make...

Bursts of gamma rays from the center of our galaxy are not likely to be signals of dark matter but rather other astrophysical phenomena such as fast-rotating stars called millisecond pulsars, according to two...

By: Melissa Hogenboom – 3 February 2016 The planets Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus all have faint rings around them. Saturn’s however really stands out. It has several rings made up of ice and dust particles, with...

CEO of Tesla Motors, Elon Musk, landed an official message unveiling the Powerwall, a battery designed to power your home. The message came at a convention center powered completely by renewable battery power. The battery...

Destiny and DNA Our genes strictly dictate our personalities, appearance and diseases. Or do they? Research has revealed that genes can turn on and off; they can be expressed for years and then silenced. Sometimes,...

Researchers seeking evidence of antimatter in the universe firmly believe they have come across a previously unknown ‘invisible life form’ on planet Earth. The group of researchers that discovered the mysterious entities work at Thunder...

A group of engineer students from MIT has won right to design and test SpaceX co-founder Elon Musk’s Hyperloop concept, which envisions a transportation system that would move people in pods through reduced-pressure tubes at...

New York World Telegram July 9th, 1932 by: William Engle Energy Transmission Is the First Requisite, Says Veteran Scientist. Nikola Tesla.Nicola [sic] Tesla discussed communication between the earth and other planets today as if he regarded...

The Central Intelligence agency has recently released thousands of highly classified UFO documents to the public, and UFO hunters and Ufologists are going crazy as they list through the never-before-seen materials which could drastically change...

Ancient Portuguese Maps Discovered A map of the XVI century stored in the archives of a library in Los Angeles is the ultimate proof that Portuguese adventurers, not British or Dutch, were the first Europeans to...

26 January 2016 Last updated at 18:45 GMT An illustrated companion to Prof Stephen Hawking’s first Reith lecture about black holes. While Prof Hawking describes the history of scientific thinking about black holes, the artist...

Astronomers have discovered the largest known solar system, consisting of a large planet that takes nearly a million years to orbit its star. The gas giant is one trillion kilometres away, making its orbit 140...

(N.Morgan) It has been discovered that the Danube Valley Civilization script is the oldest writing in the world and predates the Sumerian Writings in Mesopotamia and the Dispilio Tablet. Although the Danube Valley civilization isn’t nearly as...

Scientists just observed the largest supernova in recorded history, PBS reports. The massive explosion, titled ASASSN-15lh, belongs to a very rare class of “superluminous supernovae,” and is only 3.8 billion light years away, making it the closest...